On the go and no time to finish that story right now? Your News is the place for you to save content to read later from any device. Register with us and content you save will appear here so you can access them to read later.

A cunning pre-race plan was executed to perfection when Katie McKeen distanced her rivals in the feature staying event on yesterday's Tauranga card.

Taranaki owner-trainer Gary McBeth and his jockey Robert Hannam decided to put the pressure on a long way out in the Orora Kiwi Packaging-LRK Kiwifruit Cup and to cut the corner into the home straight when others were scouting wide.

"I was expecting a very good run," McBeth said. "Hugging the rail was perfect " Robbie has ridden her a few times and he knows her."

Katie McKeen settled in the early trail before Hannam got busy down the back straight to take the six-year-old to the front and he stuck to the fence across the top.